1918] AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 195 



Report of agriculture in the high schools of Michigan (Mich. Agr. Col., 

 Dept. Agr. Ed. Bui. 18 {1911), pp. 21, figs. 11).— This bulletin gives a brief ac- 

 count of the actual methods of instruction and the results obtained during the 

 past year. 



The instruction comprises prevocational agriculture and garden practice in 

 the seventh and eighth grades, plant and animal industry in the ninth and tenth 

 grades, and special agricultural subjects, such as crops, soUs, horticulture, and 

 farm engineering in the eleventh and twelfth grades. In 1916-17, 57 high 

 schools employed college-trained instructors and 8 employed instructors with 

 less than college training; 25 high schools had developed 4-unit courses, 24 

 offered 4 units by alternating the last two years, and 8 schools had 2-year 

 courses. The total number of students enrolled in agricultural subjects was 

 2,414, of whom 644 conducted farm-project work and 1,298 garden-project work. 

 Twenty instructors were employed for 12 months in the year and 26 gave prevo- 

 cational instruction in grades 7 and 8. Seventeen schools had land which was 

 used for demonstrations and projects. A list of the schools and teachers giv- 

 ing instruction in agriculture in 1917-18 is included. 



Report of a visit to the agricultural schools, J. Maxmbos {An. Agron. [San- 

 tiago de Chilel, 8 {1914), No. 4, pp. 5-23). — This is a report on the work of the 

 four schools of agriculture in Chile, located respectively at Concepcion, Chilian, 

 Cauquenes, and Talca, under the control of the General Inspection of Agri- 

 culture. 



List of agricultural and horticultural officials, institutions, and organiza- 

 tions {Dept. Landb., Nijv. en Handel [Netherlands], Verslag. en Meded. Dir. 

 Landb., No. 2 {1917), pp. 139).— This is the official organization list of the 

 direction of agriculture of the department of agriculture, industry, and com- 

 merce, including higher and secondary agricultural education and research 

 institutions, agricultural and horticultural winter schools and courses, itinerant 

 instructors, and associations in the Netherlands in 1917. 



Preparation of teachers for nature study and elementary agriculture by 

 the normal schools, E. R. Downing {School Sci. and Math., 17 {1917), No. 7, 

 pp. 609-621). — Data are given in tabular form on the nature study and agri- 

 culture courses, and incidentally courses in botany and zoology, offered to nor- 

 mal school students, and the nature study or elementary science work given 

 in the practice schools. The information was obtained through questionnaires 

 sent to the normal schools in this country. 



Plant ecology and its relation to agriculture, W. G. Watebman {Science, 

 n. ser., 46 {1917), No. 1184, PP- 223-228).— In this paper delivered before the 

 Illinois Academy of Science, February 23, 1917, the author discusses the content 

 of ecology and its relation to agriculture. 



He finds that " up to the present the method in agricultural texts and courses 

 has been to teach a little plant morphology, a chapter on plant activities, and 

 then nine-tenths of the work on agricultural practice." He would recommend 

 in addition the insertion of a section on ecological principles covering the con- 

 tent of ecology as outlintd. It should be general and theoretical and yet so re- 

 lated to agricultural practice as to form a suitable foundation for the agri- 

 cultural course. 



Report of committee on education: Amount of agricultural engineering 

 work offered in agricultural colleges, A. H. Gilbebt {Trans. Amer. Soc. Agr. 

 Engin., 10 {1916), No. 1, pp. 101-104). — This is in continuation of a report made 

 at the meeting of the preceding year (E. S. R., 34, p. 498) on an investigation 

 of the amount of agricultural engineering work offered in the State agricul- 

 tural colleges in the United States and Canada. 



